Legging.



N. G LINGOSTRAM;

LEGGING. I APPL IUATION FILED DEO. 17, 1909.

963,032., I ammed July 5,1910.

NICHOLAS CLINCOSTRAM, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

LEGGING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 5, 1910.

Application filed. December 17, 1909. Serial No. 533,691.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS CLINcos- TRAM, a citizen of the United States, residing in Presidio of San Francisco, in the State of California, have invented a new and useful Legging, of which the following is a description and specification.

This invention relates to puttee leggings and the objects of my improvements are, first, to facilitate putting it on and adjusting it; second, to lessen interference with the various movements of the foot; third to unite more perfectly and neatly the legging to the upper part of the shoe and in general to improve appearance. These objects I attain as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a View of the legging as it appears when adjusted to the leg and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the legging detached, showing the outer surface thereof.

The body of the legging from A to B is reinforced by suitable stiffening material, and opening to the front is fastened by two buttons C and D; these buttons are oblong or rectangular in form and after being put through the button hole are turned at right angles to it to secure that part of the legging to which they pertain. At the part represented by the line at B the reinforcement ends, and here is attached to it (or continued in the same piece as the legging proper, if convenient), a piece of soft pliable material extending all around the legging below the reinforced part for some little distance and then continued independent of the legging proper and out into the shape of a short band or bandage on each side, which bandages when the legging is adjusted are wrapped in opposite direction, each once around the leg, meeting first at X and again at Y are united and adjusted in front at Z with a buckle; these straps or bandages incline gradually downward making the wrapping about the leg and ankle uniform.

I am aware that up to this various kinds of leggings have been in use.

I claim,

In a legging in combination with an upper inflexible part fastened at the front with buttons a lower part attached to it extending to the ankle and continued horizontally into opposite flexible bands for the purpose of adjusting that part of the legging and effecting its junction with the shoe at the ankle relatively independent of the inflexible part substantially as described.

NICHOLAS CLINCOSTRAM.

Vitnesses S11). J. PALMER, F. WV. VON Sex-manna. 

